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"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself."


Ad: "Hackers & Painters" by Paul Graham

"Maybe the advantage of software will turn out to have been temporary. Hackers love to build hardware, and customers love to buy it. So if the ease of shipping hardware even approached the ease of shipping software, we'd see a lot more hardware startups."


Ad: "Hackers & Painters" by Paul Graham

"Startups are so hard that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. You have to know that growth is what you're after. The good news is, if you get growth, everything else tends to fall into place. Which means you can use growth like a compass to make almost every decision you face."


Ad: "Hackers & Painters" by Paul Graham

"The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas."


Ad: "Hackers & Painters" by Paul Graham